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I can't tell if it's self aware satire or if he's really serious about the whole thing and that's what makes it so good!

In other news, i got drunk last week and accidentally agreed to appear on a stand-up open mic night today, so that's going to be amusing and cringe!

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"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison" - Schopenhauer, Aphorisms: The Wisdom of Life

"All the pride and pleasure of the world, mirrored in the dull consciousness of a fool, are poor indeed compared with the imagination of Cervantes writing his Don Quixote in a miserable prison" - Schopenhauer, Aphorisms: The Wisdom of Life

That reminds me of one particularly dickish deck featuring a Chronotog. Turn after turn of no choice of anything for anyone to do while the game "played" itself. Weee. The only fair thing to do is make them play every un-turn of the Stasis Deck so they burn the damn thing in frustration and blight the world no more. Its what Kirk would do.

As someone whom has lived through two presidential impeachments (and the left here has been threatening to make the third a reality) it is somewhat amusing to me to see americans losing their shit over what passes for Trump's impeachment proceedings.

As someone whom has lived through two presidential impeachments (and the left here has been threatening to make the third a reality) it is somewhat amusing to me to see americans losing their shit over what passes for Trump's impeachment proceedings.

Basically, he's mainly being accused of attempting to get political favors to help him against political opponents by using some of the things he has control over as bargaining chips. That amounts to breaking at least two federal laws.

However, technically there are current zero charges as of right now in terms of why he might be impeached (which is doubtful given the politics of the situation, he'd never be removed from office and surviving an impeachment trial after being impeached would help his re-election campaign). Articles of Impeachment haven't been drawn up yet, that committee just started today.

As someone whom has lived through two presidential impeachments (and the left here has been threatening to make the third a reality) it is somewhat amusing to me to see americans losing their shit over what passes for Trump's impeachment proceedings.

I mean, really: what are the charges there?

Bribery. Extortion. Attempting to illegally interfere in the election process. Which is the core fucking reason to have a removal process.Obstruction of Congress. The other damn reason for it existing.

Nixon slinked away with his tail between his legs for the same things. And he didn't involve multiple foreign governments in his crime spree. (He did that to get elected in the first place.) Trump meanwhile is openly continuing his efforts to subvert the constitution and illegally manipulate his next election. And all his Ukraine claptrap is straight up Russian propaganda with no substantiation from any reputable source. He's looking to reward Russia for its cyber warfare during the 2016 election while he's at it. And his lawyers are arguing he can't be held accountable for crimes, nor investigated, not even by congress. That has explicit authority to do so.

This isn't Clinton's blowjob, its a huge series of crimes that undermine the basic functioning of the country's democratic institutions.